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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9 - Room to rent for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these sentences from Exercise 4 and the conversation. Then work in pairs and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. a and b use nouns (fewer cars / less crime) c, d, e and f use adjectives (more popular / much thinner / much worse / not as fit as)
  2. fewer + countable nouns, less + uncountable nouns
  3. than before, than I was, than it used to be, in the past, as I used to be
  4. the situation now